Ask Lemmy

I like all sorts of escapism. TV, Movies, Games, Books are all doorways to me.

Does YouTube count as TV?

I can’t stand most television anymore. Especially now that most streaming services have brought back ads.

I go through phases, cycling though comics, books, games, movies, TV, etc depending where my interest and curiosity takes me. I tend to watch more TV and movies when playing/practicing music or playing slower or turn based games.

I avoid passive video media almost entirely. I too prefer interactive media best.

I think around here you're more likely to find folk who play video games rather than watch TV or movies, but I might be wrong.

I personally never play video games. I have nothing against them, just never got into it beyond old Atari ST games in my early teens.

From what I hear from friends and colleagues at work I know I'm missing out, so I'm planning to make an effort to get into some sort of game when I have the time, probably when the sprogs are older. It is sort of intimidating and I don't really know where to begin, but I'm sure it'll be interesting.

Nope, I just watch Youtube now, specifically things that interest me.

I'm the same, it makes it even harder for me to socialise with other people though, "Have you seen the new (Blank) show?"...

TV shows all have the same safe plot now. I don't even own a TV anymore after Netflix became slop. For the really special stuff that comes out once awhile I'll just find a pirate stream.

I play multiplayer indie games on Steam with friends, roleplay in second life, or read books.

Should be doing our phasmophobia playthrough for Halloween soon.

I don't watch TV. I actually can't. I haven't had cable or an antenna to receive anything since I bought my house in 2011.

I have a media server with movies and TV shows. If I really want to watch something I'll watch one of those. I do like movies but only watch them if they interest me and that's getting a lot rarer these days.

I don't play video games at all or have any game consoles.

You are not alone. I have a handful of movies and shows I like to watch, but my excess time is usually spent reading books, browsing thrift stores and library shops for books, or reading articles about books. I also splash a little World of Warcraft, gardening, and house chores in there too.

Pretty much. I've got a bunch of entertaining YouTube channels (some of which are, ironically enough, movie and tv show reviewers that I'd rather watch than the stuff they're talking about), a huge backlog on my Steam library, and plenty of music to listen to and books to read.

I stopped a long time ago. I just prefer interactive entertainment over passive. TV was easy to axe, cut the cable bill & never looked back. Movies went much later, too many shitty movies back to back, eventually stopped going, so stopped seeing previews, which in turn broke the cycle of wanting to see the next one.

I will say that not watching movies or TV makes it harder to interact with folks. There's something of a shared culture we have through our entertainment, and not having that makes it harder to connect.

Oddly, I just started watching movies again this year. I've been getting better about getting on the elliptical, and I'm now at the point where my 'runs' take about 90 minutes. So been catching up on all the movies I considered watching over the last ~25 years. Turns out I didn't miss much. lol.

I "watch" history documentaries on YouTube while I do chores but that's about it. We don't even have a TV in the downstairs of our house, though my husband has one in his office for gaming. I'm a book worm and prefer books and podcasts. I do love playing some Skyrim or COD Zombies etc., mostly in the winter though, nice weather=yard work or gardening projects.

For any fellow history nerds out there, People's Profiles on YouTube is one of my favorites. Long form, contains imagery but no reenactments, it is essentially a podcast with decoration, and they even group together biographies into massive 4 hour+ videos for those "omg, this is gonna take me forever" cleaning/house projects.

Yep me too… not many shows or movies that float my boat any more…video games are much more entertaining .

I'm the opposite, I barely play videogames outside a few rounds of whatever multiplayer thing my buddies are playing. But I'll watch a movie or show from time to time. I read less than I'd like to admit, but I still read more than I play single player video games.

I consume a ton of music though, and not always just in the background, I like to get into it, break down each instruments parts, read up on the context behind the music and musicians

I've always got music on in the background. Less gaming nowadays, doing my best to read more books.

In my circle this doesn't seem uncommon. I feel like more of an outlier because I don't really watch YouTube or anything similar.

I like watching them but I don't watch TV much. I stream. I do it occasionally about as much as I play video games probably a bit less. I spend the most time socializing or researching, maybe 60% of my time, 35% playing video games, and 15% watching stuff. I do other things too of course, this is just the big 4. Other things including hacking or coding my devices, playing dress up, taking naps, I love some naps, or finding something productive to do outside or working.

I watch a ton but I very rarely sit down and watch something as my sole activity. So the majority of time its im throwing something to kinda watch while I do something else.

Hmm that's interesting. I always find videos games take too much energy. Also requires good hardware to play good games, meanwhile you can play video content on any cheap tablet in 1080p.

(I also can't really read books, unless the story really interests me, its hard to visualize scenes. (aphantasia, maybe?) Again, takes too much energy.)

I find the quality of Movies to be usually higher than TV Shows. Movies are consistent throught, but TV shows sometime gets rushed in some parts, especiallt if its a different season. (Infamous GoT debacle, remember?) But its usually TV shows that tells more interesting stories, but you are also at the mercy of big media companies of just cancelling your favorite show and fucking you over.

I recently find animated content, especially (Japanese) Anime, to be an interesting medium. Some concepts can be expressed in animated, but would look very silly when acted out / live-action (like Death Note adaptations, or Avatar: The Last Airbender, I mean, shinigamis and bending elements in live-acting is just cringe, and they have young adults playing kid roles which is just ridiculous), and because you don't have actor restraints or need filming locations, its much less likely to get "cancelled" like Netflix does.

Tldr: Movie > Anime > TV > Manga > Books

Video games is an energy vampire

To me it's more of a boycott of ads, and I am not paying for a service to make that happen, so turning it off is my main option. I am especially perturbed about the ability of companies to advertise and push drugs that require a prescription to obtain. I do have a list of movies to watch from a large dvd collection I have, but I am not in a rush to go through that at the moment.

I generally prefer movies, books, or video games over a TV show. There are exceptions, but there's just a lot of filler on TV shows; even good ones.

i love a great film. Occasionally a TV series, Channel Zero is really good.

nope not anymore. YT clips are enough since alot of the movies and show these days are very subpar post-2010, also the aggressive push for copaganda, military propaganda, christianity-ganda(movies not parodying or criticizing to a great degree) in some form around the time trumps 1st term. most movies are basically just promoting these 2 things right now, only a small amount are counter to this. since most of them are on streams, im not paying to watch it, if its going to get cancelled anyways.

nutrek is just not interesting, and in light of recent events, people who are fans of trek shouldnt support PARAMOUNT+.

MCU films/movies are quite silly and subpar, except the ones with kathyrn HANH, and cate blanchett.

Does nobody use ad blockers anymore?

My media use goes in cycles:

TV - really just background noise.

Movies.

Books.

Comics.

Games.

Binged a bunch of movies recently. FF, Ballerina, Superman, 28 Years Later, The French Dispatch, Isle of Dogs, Nobody 1 & 2, and books got set aside.

Ready to go back to books.

100% same. Interactive media like video games only. These days I abhor sitting down to watch most movies or streaming stuff. Visual passive media is pretty much a no-go for me without being forced by the partner.

I've started studying at the university and also I am working. I don't have time for this shit. The best I can do is to watch EU4 (and EU5 in couple of weeks!) let's plays, whenever I have time.